Another interesting feature about Lyra is the implementation of a local cache of the
music library using SQLite
database. This can lead to decreased load times and permits the application to
implement features that the daemon does not inherently support such as ratings and
tacking user habits.

Lyra as of version 1.0.1 offers integration with the
Last.fm music service.
This integration permits us to extract album and artist information including album
cover art. In addition the
Scrobbling
ervice will track what you play on Lyra at use that information to better guide
you for venues, new artists and neighbours in your area.

Lyra has been released under the three-clause
Berkely
Software Distribution (BSD) license and comes with the complete source tree,
enabling users to build the application. The source code is heavily commented and
includes Javadoc tree for
additional reference.

References

The following documents are included with the Lyra release and exist as part
of the applications default help system. They are included here now as a
convenience.